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Environmental storytelling podcast driven by curiosity and an investigative spirit. Engaging and transformative narratives, with an ever-increasing scope that pushes beyond the traditional boundaries of terms like “environment”, "energy", or “sustainability”.
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2015-05-12 | The stories of those in civil society who seek to enact change in the international climate change policy process. Featured is the work of negotiator trackers in the "Adopt a Negotiator" initiative, which aims to paint a personal face on the negotiato... |
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2015-05-08 | Our 2013 interview with Ozzie Zehner about what's wrong with mainstream environmental discourse, and how changing zoning laws in San Francisco could make the world a better place in many different ways. |
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2015-03-30 | It’s the second most-traded commodity in the world after oil but how much do you think about your cup of coffee? From coffee farmers in Colombia to the trash produced by your single-cup coffee machine, Making Contact and Green Grid Radio team up to cou... |
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2014-12-27 | Exploring local wintertime traditions and describing alcoholic beverages in the central European alternative capital, this story is not typical GGR fare. An original (shorter) version of this story appeared on NPR Berlin (http://www.nprberlin.de/post/h... |
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2014-07-09 | I was born with a disease called cystic fibrosis (CF), the number one genetic killer of children in the United States. The most serious complication of the disease, which affects about 70,000 people worldwide, is the vicious cycle of chronic infection,... |
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2014-06-29 | Green Grid Radio returns to the topic of food. This time, we go all the way back to the farm, and to the promise of the tractor. The tractor that promised to make life for farmers easier and our farms more productive. In today's episode, however, we m... |
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2014-05-23 |
S4E6: Biofuels, or How GGR Learned About Popcorn-smelling Exhaust Biofuels, mainly ethanol, now account for one-tenth of car fuel consumed in the United States and that number is set to rise. But are biofuels the silver bullet for the looming energy crisis? Produced by Citlalli Sandoval and Lingzhi Jin. Guests incl... |
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2014-05-13 | Stanford University made national news last week when the Board of Trustees announced the decision to divest the $18.7 billion endowment from coal investments. We bring you the story of the students of Fossil Free Stanford who were called into a surpri... |
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2014-05-06 | Guest contributor Christina Morrisett shares a story of identity, transformation, and fish. Produced as a part of the Your American Life course at Stanford in Winter 2014 (http://www.stanford.edu/group/storytelling/cgi-bin/joomla/index.php/courses.html... |
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2014-04-28 | Seven producers, three teams, twenty four hours. Here's what we made in our 2014 radio hackathon on "Getting Around." Bonus points were awarded for laughter, the phrase “bicycle baron”, sound effects, and not using the word “environment”. Listen to see... |
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